Camryn Rogers is through to the hammer throw final at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
The 24-year-old, who won silver at last year’s worlds, threw 73.95 metres in her second toss to reach Thursday’s medal round in the Hungarian capital.
Rogers, of Richmond, B.C., told CBC Sports’ Andi Petrillo after qualifying that she doesn’t feel an increased target on her back given her 2022 success.
“As we’ve seen in this championship alone, so many athletes have come up and [posted-personal records] and had the day of their lives when it matters most, and I think anything can happen in a world championship,” she said. “Knowing that I’m here competing with the best of the best elevates that excitement for me.”
B.C.’s Camryn Rogers qualifies for hammer throw final at world championships
Richmond B.C.’s, Camryn Rogers qualified for the hammer throw world championship final, and spoke to CBC Sports’ Andi Petrillo after her performance.
Rogers is hoping to become the second Canadian field athlete to reach the podium after Ethan Katzberg won gold in men’s hammer throw.
“I think we have the best throw squad,” Rogers said. “Ethan really set the stage with that one… I think they really opened up this championship for Canadians to make a statement on the world stage.”
Hanna Skydan, of Azerbaijan, had the top throw in Wednesday’s qualifying with a heave of 77.10 metres, followed by American DeAnna Price (76.25) and Finland’s Silja Kosonen (74.19).
Jillian Weir of Kingston, Ont., did not advance with her throw of 67.48 metres.
Earlier, sprinters Aaron Brown, Brendon Rodney and Andre De Grasse all qualified for the men’s 200-metre semis.
Toronto’s Brown had the fastest time among the three Canadians, posting a 20.08-second time and finishing second in his heat, and fourth overall.
“It’s nerve-racking waiting for your turn,” he said post-race of getting to compete. “I chose to drop the 100 just to focus on the [200], because I knew there are some big dogs in the (200) this year, so I could give my best shot, put all my eggs in one basket.
“So far it’s paying off and I felt pretty good running from lane two, running 20.0, and happy to finally get my feet wet.”
Canadians Aaron Brown, Brendon Rodney and Andre De Grasse advance to men’s world 200m semis
Great Britain’s Zarnel Hughes was the only sprinter to run a sub-20 second time (19.99 seconds), while Canadians Aaron Brown, Brendon Rodney and Andre De Grasse advanced to the semifinals of the men’s 200-metre event at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
Reigning Olympic champion De Grasse, of Markham, Ont., finished in 20.28 and was 12th among all sprinters.
The 28-year-old, who qualified for the event on the final day of the qualifying window on July 30 when he won the national title in a season-best 20.01 seconds, was content with how things have turned out so far despite a tough season.
“This season has been a lot more of a struggle than previous seasons. Usually when I come into champs, I know where I’m at, I know what it’s going to take,” he said post-race. “But this champs, at first, I was a little bit on edge, I didn’t know what I’d be able to take, not trying to go too hard but still trying to put together a solid run to get a top-three performance.
“It turned out pretty well so now I’ve just got to put together a little bit more pieces and a sub-20 [second] performance could happen.”
Rodney, of Etobicoke, Ont., posted a season’s best time of 20.18, good enough for the sixth-fastest time in the heats.
The semifinals are Thursday with the final taking place on Friday.
“I never worry about Andre at the biggest stage because I’m very squarely in that second camp that when it matters most, he turns up,” said CBC Sports analyst Kate Van Buskirk.
“He’s a gamer. He and his team do a fabulous job of peaking exactly when it matters.”
Also, Toronto’s Jazz Shukla advanced into the women’s 800 semifinals with a personal-best time of two minutes 30 seconds. Madeleine Kelly of Pembroke, Ont., failed to qualify at 2:04.72.
Vancouver’s Regan Yee narrowly missed qualification in the women’s 3,000 steeplechase with a time of nine minutes 26.39 seconds.
“It just is not a good feeling when your best isn’t enough,” Yee told Petrillo while holding back tears. “That’s sport though.”
Ceili McCabe, also of Vancouver, won’t advance either with her time of 9:29.30.
Canada’s Julie-Ann Staehli, Briana Scott and Erin Teschuk were each eliminated in the women’s 5,000 heats.
Michelle Harrison was knocked out in the women’s 100 hurdles, placing eighth in her heat at 13.05 seconds.
The 30-year-old Saskatoon, Sask., native also reached the semifinals last year, when a personal-best clocking of 12.74 seconds wasn’t enough to race for a medal.
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Ingebrigsten upset in men’s 1,500
Britain’s Josh Kerr pulled off the biggest upset of the world championships, outrunning heavily favoured Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway to the line for a win in the 1,500.
Kerr finished in 3:29.28 to join Jake Wightman as the second British runner in two years to upset Ingebrigtsen at worlds.
The 22-year-old Norwegian is the Olympic champion and has the fastest times this season. He came in as a 1-7 betting favourite but has yet to cross the line first in the 1,500 at a world-championship meet.
“I get it. He’s a superstar. He chokes under pressure though, and we’ve seen it time and time again in the 1500,” Van Buskirk said. “And it’s that tension in his body when he’s challenged on the outside, which is exactly what our eventual winner Josh Kerr did. And two years in a row, a Brit comes up in the final metres of the race.”
Ingebrigtsen told Petrillo he’d battled a sore throat over the past couple days.
“Today was not a good day for me. … All credit to Kerr, but obviously I wasn’t 100 per cent today,” he said.
This silver goes with the one from last year, along with a second place at indoor world championships in 2022 and at junior worlds in 2018.
Ingebrigtsen will have another chance later this week when he defends his title in the 5,000.
Kerr upsets Ingebrigtsen to claim 1,500 metre gold at World Athletics Championships
Great Britain’s Josh Kerr claimed the 1,500 metre gold medal over the favorite from Norway Jakob Ingebrigtsen with a time of 3:29.38 in Budapest.
Moon, Kennedy share pole vault gold
American Katie Moon and Australia’s Nina Kennedy decided to share the gold medal in a dramatic women’s pole vault final.
The two women cleared 4.90 in an event that stretched two hours 10 minutes, but both missed on all three attempts at 4.95 and decided to share the victory rather than go to a jump-off.
It was the second consecutive world title for Moon, who also won Olympic gold in Tokyo. The 4.90 mark was a national record for Kennedy and a personal best by eight centimetres.
Wilma Murto of Finland tied her season’s best of 4.80 for bronze, missing all three of her attempts at 4.85. The 25-year-old became the first Finnish woman to win a Diamond League title when she beat Moon at the London event on July 23.
Warholm reclaims hurdles gold
Karsten Warholm of Norway returned to the top of the global podium, racing to gold in the 400 hurdles.
The world record holder and Olympic champion ran 46.89, pulling away from American Rai Benjamin heading into the home straight.
The 27-year-old won the 2017 and 2019 world championships, but struggled to seventh at the worlds last season in Eugene, Ore., when he was hampered by an injury.
Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands crossed in 47.34 for silver, while Benjamin, silver medallist last year in Eugene, faded to take bronze in 47.56.
Norway’s Karsten Warholm captures 3rd 400 metre hurdles World Championship title
Karsten Warholm of Norway claimed gold in the 400m hurdles final with a time of 46.89 on day five of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
American 100m champs get off to a fast start in 200
Sha’Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles each kicked off their quest for a second medal by easily winning their 200 heats.
Richardson finished in 22.16 seconds and Lyles in 20.05 in a pair of no-drama returns to the track after they gave the United States the first sweep of the 100 at a worlds since 2017, when Justin Gatlin and Tori Bowie won in London.
Three women who have run faster than Richardson in the 200 this year — Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson, St. Lucia’s Julien Alfred and the United States’ Gabby Thomas — also qualified easily.
The American sprinter has some fond memories of that day and breaks down everything from feeling alone during the race to the shirt rip and who inspired it.
Defending 800 Olympic and world champion Athing Mu, who wavered on running at the worlds through much of the summer, showed up and won her opening heat.
Heats for the women’s 5,000, where Faith Kipyegon opens her quest for a second medal after winning the 1,500 on Tuesday, were moved to the evening session because of the heat. The temperature in Budapest reached 32 C at noon, with the 55 per cent humidity making it feel like 34 C.
World Athletics Championships Budapest: Day 5 morning session
Watch the best track and field athletes in the world compete for a spot on the podium in Budapest, Hungary.
World Athletics Championships Budapest: Day 5 afternoon session
Catch the best track and field athletes in the world compete for a spot on the podium from Budapest, Hungary.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — DeMar DeRozan scored 27 points in a record-setting performance and the Sacramento Kings beat the Toronto Raptors 122-107 on Wednesday night.
Domantas Sabonis added 17 points, 13 assists and 11 rebounds for his third triple-double of the season for Sacramento. He shot 6 for 6 from the field and 5 for 5 at the free-throw line.
Keegan Murray chipped in with 22 points and 12 rebounds, and De’Aaron Fox scored 21.
The 35-year-old DeRozan has scored at least 20 points in each of his first eight games with the Kings, breaking a franchise mark established by Chris Webber when he reached 20 in his first seven games with Sacramento in 1999.
DeRozan spent the past three seasons with the Chicago Bulls. The six-time All-Star also has played for Toronto and San Antonio during his 16-year NBA career.
RJ Barrett had 23 points to lead the Raptors. Davion Mitchell scored 20 in his first game in Sacramento since being traded to Toronto last summer.
Takeaways
Raptors: Toronto led for most of the first three quarters before wilting in the fourth. The Raptors were outscored 33-14 in the final period.
Kings: Fox played strong defense but struggled again shooting from the floor as he is dealing with a finger injury. Fox went 5 for 17 and just 2 of 8 on 3-pointers. He is 5 for 25 from beyond the arc in his last three games.
Key moment
The Kings trailed 95-89 early in the fourth before going on a 9-0 run that gave them the lead for good. DeRozan started the spurt with a jumper, and Malik Monk scored the final seven points.
Key stat
Sabonis had the eighth game in the NBA since at least 1982-83 with a triple-double while missing no shots from the field or foul line. The previous player to do it was Josh Giddey for Oklahoma City against Portland on Jan. 11.
Up next
Raptors: At the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday night, the third stop on a five-game trip.
VANCOUVER – The Vancouver Whitecaps are one win away from moving on to the next round of the Major League Soccer playoffs.
To get there, however, the Whitecaps will need to pull off the improbable by defeating the powerhouse Los Angeles FC for a second straight game.
Vancouver blanked the visitors 3-0 on Sunday to level their best-of-three first-round playoff series at a game apiece. As the matchup shifts back to California for a decisive Game 3 on Friday, the Whitecaps are looking for a repeat performance, said striker Brian White.
“We take the good and the bad from last game, learn from what we could have done better and go to LAFC with confidence and, obviously, with a whole lot of respect,” he said.
“We know that we can go there and give them a very good fight and hopefully come away with a win.”
The winner of Friday’s game will face the No. 4-seed Seattle Sounders in a one-game Western Conference semifinal on Nov. 23 or 24.
The ‘Caps finished the regular season eighth in the west with a 13-13-8 record and have since surprised many with their post-season play.
First, Vancouver trounced its regional rivals, the Portland Timbers, 5-0 in a wild-card game. Then, the squad dropped a tightly contested 2-1 decision to the top-seeded L.A. before posting a decisive home victory on Sunday.
Vancouver has scored seven goals this post-season, second only to the L.A. Galaxy (nine). Vancouver also leads the league in expected goals (6.84) through the playoffs.
No one outside of the club expected the Whitecaps to win when the Vancouver-L. A. series began, said defender Ranko Veselinovic.
“We’ve shown to ourselves that we can compete with them,” he said.
Now in his fifth season with the ‘Caps, Veselinovic said Friday’s game will be the biggest he’s played for the team.
“We haven’t had much success in the playoffs so, definitely, this is the one that can put our season on another level,” he said.
This is the second year in a row the Whitecaps have faced LAFC in the first round of the playoffs and last year, Vancouver was ousted in two straight games.
The team isn’t thinking about revenge as it prepares for Game 3, White said.
“More importantly than (beating LAFC), we want to get to the next round,” he said. “LAFC’s a very good team. We’ve come up against them a number of times in different competitions and they always seem to get the better of us. So it’d be huge for us to get the better of them this time.”
Earning a win last weekend required slowing L.A.’s transition game and limiting offensive opportunities for the team’s big stars, including Denis Bouanga.
Those factors will be important again on Friday, said Whitecaps head coach Vanni Sartini, who warned that his team could face a different style of game.
“I think the most important thing is going to be to match their intensity at the beginning of the game,” he said. “Because I think they’re going to come at us a million miles per hour.”
The ‘Caps will once again look to captain Ryan Gauld for some offensive firepower. The Scottish attacking midfielder leads MLS in playoff goals with five and has scored in all three of Vancouver’s post-season appearances this year.
Gearing up for another do-or-die matchup is exciting, Gauld said.
“Knowing it’s a winner-takes-all kind of game, being in that kind of environment is nice,” he said. “It’s when you see the best in players.”
LAFC faces the bulk of the pressure heading into the matchup, Sartini said, given the club’s appearances in the last two MLS Cup finals and its 2022 championship title.
“They’re supposed to win and we are not,” the coach said. “But it’s beautiful to have a little bit of pressure on us, too.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 6, 2024.
Each PWHL team operated under its city name, with players wearing jerseys featuring the league’s logo in its inaugural season before names and logos were announced last month.
The Toronto Sceptres, Montreal Victoire, Ottawa Charge, Boston Fleet, Minnesota Frost and New York Sirens will start the PWHL’s second season on Nov. 30 with jerseys designed to reflect each team’s identity and to be sold to the public as replicas.
Led by PWHL vice-president of brand and marketing Kanan Bhatt-Shah, the league consulted Creative Agency Flower Shop to design the jerseys manufactured by Bauer, the PWHL said Thursday in a statement.
“Players and fans alike have been waiting for this moment and we couldn’t be happier with the six unique looks each team will don moving forward,” said PWHL senior vice president of business operations Amy Scheer.
“These jerseys mark the latest evolution in our league’s history, and we can’t wait to see them showcased both on the ice and in the stands.”
Training camps open Tuesday with teams allowed to carry 32 players.
Each team’s 23-player roster, plus three reserves, will be announced Nov. 27.
Each team will play 30 regular-season games, which is six more than the first season.
Minnesota won the first Walter Cup on May 29 by beating Boston three games to two in the championship series.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 7, 2024.
